Method of winding skeins



M. 0. CLAUSS.

METHOD OF WINDING SKEINS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.1| 19l9- 1 A0 1 ,5 1 5 Patented Dec. 27, 1921.

$ affable! view, the invention consists in'the improved 1 all whom itmay concern:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

i a max 0. entries, on NEW YORK, N. Y., AssIenoR Tori-m CLARK THREAD comrm, or mrwm, new JERSEY, A conronuron or NEW JERSEY.

ME THOD 0F WINDING BKEINS.

. Specificationof Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 27 1921.

Application filed August 1,1e1aser1a1im. 314,647.

Be it known thatl, MAX Orro CLAUss, a citizen of Germany, and a resident of New York, in the county ofNew York and State of New York, having invented certain new andiuseful Improvements in Methods of .Winding Skeins, do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same. i f

This invention relates to an improved method of winding skeins. It is oneobject of the present invention to provide an imt length is formed into a provedmethod of Winding yarn, cotton or silk thread into skeins, whereby the natural tendency of the thread, and especially coarse yarns, to twist upon itself when the skein is loosened, is eliminated. i 1

Another object of my invention resides in the provision of an improved method of winding yarn or threadinto skeins whereby a continuous thread of relatively great comparatively short skein. i i l The invention has for a further object to provide a method of Winding .skelns in which the threadis wound to form main or primary and intermediate or subsidiary loops disposed it in superposed relation and l soarranged thatsaid loops may be readily separated without entangling the yarnor thread.

Another object of the invention is to wind the skein in such manner that it will be unwindable without entanglement simply by pulling on ordrawing out the proper thread or strand, whether the skeinis in the condition in which it comes fromthe Winding machine com osed of the main or primaryloops and t e pluralityof intermediate or subsidiary loops, or whether the skein isunfolded into a single series of simple loops by separating the intermediate or subsidiary loops from the mam or primary loops. 1 i

b With the above, and other objects in method of winding skeins, as above characterized, and. in the several steps thereof as will be hereinafter more fully described,

illustrated in the accompanying drawin s,

and particularly pointed out in the su joinedclaims. i it In the drawing, wherein similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the severallviews and in which I have illustrated a skein holder suitable for use in practising the method of the invention and a skein as [wound thereon Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the holder in position for the thread i to' be Wound thereon mediate point in the separation of the skein loo s; and i 1* ig. 8 is a diagrammatic view showing the superposed loops completely separated to form a single loop.

Referring in detail. to the drawin ,5 designates the body of the skein hofder, which, asshown, is of channel form in cross section and includes the side flanges 6 integrally connectedby the bodyplate 7. The flanges 6 extend beyond one end of the plate 7 and terminate in the angularly disposed arms 8 which are recessed or bifurcated as at 9. The plate 7 is provided with spaced openings 10 to receive suitable fastening elements whereby the holder may be securely fixed upon one of the links of an endlesschain or other carrier of a skein winding machine. The skeln holding member 11 consists of a plate 12 having an angularly bent flange 13 extending along one of its longitudinal edges. This flange, at one end ofthe plate 12,.Iis formed with an angularly disposed arm 14 which is bifurcated or recessed as at 15. The flange 13 is arranged closely adjacent to the inner face of oneof the side flanges 6 on the body member 5 and the arm 14 is pivoted as at 16 to the arm 8 on the flanged It will lee-observed that the bifurcation 15 of the arm 14 is not obstructed by the arm 8 but projects beyond the edge of the latter arm.

loop supporting element 17 is fixed to the other end of the plate 12 and is disposed at the inner edge thereof in a plane at rightwangles to the plane'ofsaid plate.

This element may be of any desired len th, but as indicated in the drawing is prefera 1y I 7 about twice the length of the body member 5.

flar extension 22 formed on one .of the flanges 6 of the body member. This dog is adaptedto engage a shoulder 23 formed on the end of the flange 13 and is yieldingly'held in such engagement by means of a spring 24:, one end of which is fixed to the flange 6 by the screw 25, while its other end is engaged with the angularly disposed lug 26 formed on the-latch dog 19.

In practice, a plurality of the skein hold- 111g devices, as above described, are mounted, 1n spaced relation with each other, upon the hnks of an endless chaln, whlch constitutes a partof a skein winding mechanism. An

intermittent movement is transmitted tothis chain and the skeinholding'devices are successively brought to a substantially horizontal position at the upper. end of the vertically disposed chain as seen in Fig. l of the drawing. The thread is carried and looped upon the partsfof the holding devices by means of a suitably actuated flier, but in so far as the subject matter of the present application is concerned, the winding operal .tion may be performed by hand. I have diagrammatically illustrated in Fig. 6 a method of winding a skein according to the principle of the present invention. In this figure A and B respectively indicate'the spaced bifurcated arms 8 of the skein holder, while C indicates the bifurcation or notch 18 in the. end of theelement 17.

The improved method of winding skeins is practised as follows: At the start of the winding: operation the thread or yarn T isfirst engaged with the supporting point B and drawn through th notch 9 to the outside ofthearm8. The thread is now drawn longitudinally of, the element 17 and passed laterally around the point C. This longitudinal thread strand 0 constitutes one side ofa main or-primary loop. At the point C the thread is drawn from the inner side of the element 17 through the notch or recess 18 to the outer side of said'element, as at a, and extended longitudinally thereof and then inwardly around the point B. The thread is then returned along the inner side of the element 17 as at a and again passed through the'notch or recess 18 to the outer side of said element. The thread is now drawnto the inner side of the point A, as

indicated at t, and then outwardly thereof and from this point A is returned upon itself and drawn through the notch or recess 19 in the top of the element 17, and again around the point C, as shown at b. The thread is then extended longitudinally and again en aged around the point A and brought inwardly therefrom to the point of beginning. This latter strand of the thread, designated 0 constitutes the other side of the main or primary loop. It will thus be seen that in the winding operation the thread T is formed into two intermediate or subsidiary loops comprising the strands a, a and Z), Z), respectively, before the main or primaryloop consisting of the strand 0, c is completed. It will thus be seen that the improved skein winding method of the present invention comprises partially forming a main or primary loop, then forming a plurality of intermediate or subsidiary loops within the circuit of the main or primary loop and finally completing the main or primary loop.

The winding operation above described is continued until the desired length ofthrcad has been wound upon the holder into a skein in which a series of separate and. distinct loops are formed with the loops arranged in superposed relation. It will, of course, he understood that the number of supporting points for the skein loops may be multiplied to form as great a number of loops in the skein as may be desired.

After the skein has been wound upon the holder, as above explained, in the next intermittent movement of the chain or carrier the holder with the skcin thereon will be positioned at one side of the upper sprocket wheel. While in this position the attendant or operative may now easily slip a tubular paper band 30 over the end of the element 17 and over the strand loops to approximately the position indicated in Fig. 4. In the continued intermittent movements of the chain, the holder is finally brought to a position where the latch dog 20 will be automatically engaged and released from its looking position with relation to the holder 23. At the same time a part is engaged in the notch or bifurcation 15 of the arm Li and the loop supporting member 11 carrying the element 1.7 is swung laterally and outwardly in a horizontal plane to a position at right angles to its former position with respect to the chain, as also seen in Fig. 41-. In the movement of the element 17 to the latter position, the tension of the skein loops upon the bifurcated arms 8 is slightly loosened. so that the loops may be readily disengaged from saidarms in the removal of the slrein from the holder, which latter operation may be accomplished either automatically or by hand. There is a natural tendency of the yarn or thread, and particularly of coarse 1.1 woman yams, to rtwistnpon itself when theuindiwilil not twist "at spaced intervals whereby the possibility of entanglement of the thread strands with each other from this cause obviated. The several superposed series of a single loop, as indicated in Figs. 7 and 8:

skein'loops may bevery easily separated into This separation may be readily effected. by simply graspingthe thread strands at the pointsofbeginning and ending of the formation of the main or primary loop (1, c. y The SldB portions of this main loop arezthen moved laterally away fromthe ends: of the intermediate or subsidiary loops which were .wound around thepoints A and B respec tively, and these ends of theintermediate or subsidiary loops aremovedl away from each other, as indicated in "Fig. l. The several loops may thenbe straightened out so that a single continuousloop madeup of a multiplicity of strands is roduced as seen in Fig.

i 8. While I have re erredto the separation of theseveral skein loops with some par- 3Q ticularity, it is not necessary to individually gras and separate the several loops, but by simp y grasping theecveral strands of the main'or primary'skein loop firmly and shakin or snapping theskein,the several loops wi lopen up into the single loop form illustrated in Fig. 8.

The improved method of skein winding described above possesses several features which commend it. The formation of the intermediate or subsidiary loops within the circuit of the main or primary loop eliminates the inherent tendency of several kinds of thread or yarn to twist upon itself at spaced intervals along the length of the thread or yarn strand. Moreover, the formation of the intermediate or subsidiary loops within the circuit of the main or primary loops results in a skein (which forms the subject-matter of m copending application,

SerialNo. 395,309, iled July 10, 1920) which may be put on the market and used in the condition or form in which it comes from the skein winding machine. In this form or condition the skein maybe unwound without entanglement and any desired length of a strand drawn therefrom; or the skein may i are used.

be unfolded by separating the intermediate 'or subsidiary loops from the main or primary loops to form a skein composed of a series of simple loops in which condition the skeins, as put on the market at present, Thus, the improved method of skein Winding produces a skein which may be used in the same manner in which the skeins produced by the methods now in practiceare used. Moreover, this skein has the advantage otbeing used in the condition in which it comes from the skein winding machine, which is not the practice with the usual and common form of skein now on the market, and produced by the present in etl'iods of skein winding.

:11; will beunderstood that the method. of skein winding of the present invention is not to be restricted to the winding of a skein about three fixed points, n'or to the winding of skeins about spaced supports at oneend and single supports at the other, inasmuch as the invention can be practised by fwvindingl the skein about a plurality of 'main or primary loop, and then completing the main or primary loop to produce the de sired skein.

Having thus described the inventionwhat I claim as new 'is:-

1. Amethod of winding skcins which consists in winding a thread about aplurality of supports to form a main orprimary loop about all the "supports and a plurality of intermediate or subsidiary loops about some of the supportsv 2. A method of forming skeins which consists in winding the thread to form therein a primary loop and a plurality of subsidiary loops, spaced apart at one of their ends and superposed upon each other at their other ends, and finally extending the thread be tween the spaced ends of said subsidiary loops to close the primary loop.

3. A method of winding skeins which consists in partially forming a main or primary loop, then forming within the circuit of the main or primary loop a plurality of intermediate or subsidiary loops, and finally completing the main or primary loop.

4. A method of forming a skein which consists in winding a thread around spaced supports to form a series of multi-strand relatively short loops therein, the loops in oneseries being arranged in superposed relation to each other and to the loops in the other series, said loops being readily separable to produce a single multi-strand loop of a length equal to the combined length of the series of short loops.

5. A method of forming a skein which consists in winding a thread around spaced supports to form a series of multi-strand relatively short loops therein, the individual strands of the respective loops being disposedin superposed relation to each other and the strands of one loop being also disposed in intersecting superposed relation to the strands of the adjacentloop, said series of loops being readily separable to produce a single m'ulti-strand loop of a length equal to the combined lengthof a series of short loops. a V

6.'=The method of forming skeins which consists in winding a thread to first form one end'and one side of a primary loop,

7 then forming within the circuit of the pri- 8. The method of forming skeins which consists in winding a thread around spaced supports to first form one end and'one side of a primary loop, then forming a series of subsidiary loops in the thread, the individual strands of the loops of each series being in intersecting relation with each other and with the individual strands of the other loops, and finally returning the thread to the starting point to form the other side of the primary loop, thereby closing the latter loop.

9. The method of forming skeins which consists in winding a thread around fixed supports to form first two sides of a primary loop, then winding the thread to form a plurality of subsidiary loops within the circuit of the primary loop and finally coinpleting the primary loop.

10. The method of forming skeins around three fixed supports which consists in winding a thread in such manner as to partially form a primary loop, then forming a plurality of subsidiary loops by winding the thread from one of the supports alternately around two supports and finally completing the primary loop.

11. The method of forming skeins which consists in winding a thread around three fixed supports so as first to partially form, around the outsides of the supports, a primary loop, then forming about two of the supports, a subsidiary loop, next iornnng about one of these supports and the third support, a second subsidiary loop, and finally completing the primary loop around the outsides of the supports.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention, I have signed my name hereunder.

MAX 0. CLAUSE. 

